YouTube and Omnisio Join Forces — As you probably guessed, we're big fans of anything that lets people interact with online video and gives the YouTube community the chance to express themselves in creative ways. New features such as Video Annotations, which allow you to insert comments …

Google Acquires Omnisio To Spice Up YouTube — Google has acquired Atherton, CA based startup Omnisio, the companies are announcing this afternoon. Omnisio, which is a Y Combinator company, first demo'd to us in early March 2008, and it launched later that month.

New home page helps you explore more on the Web — Today we're releasing an update to the Live Search home page that received positive feedback from customers in trials last month. The new design features background images that will change frequently, augmented with what we call “hotspots.”

Apple warns resellers of Mac and iPod drought, says load up now — With the first phase of the iPhone 3G launch in the rear view, Apple Inc. is now shifting much of its focus towards product refreshes targeting its two other revenue drivers and is advising resellers to be prepared for product shortages in the interim.

Really: Is it Cuil or Us? — by sarah lacy. — Pretty harsh post on TechCrunch this morning about how Cuil “blew” it's launch in 20 seconds. It talks about the absurdly short hype-cycle of less than a minute on today's Web. — I'll be the first to say I was disappointed in the early results …

OPEC 2.0 — AMERICANS today spend almost as much on bandwidth — the capacity to move information — as we do on energy. A family of four likely spends several hundred dollars a month on cellphones, cable television and Internet connections, which is about what we spend on gas and heating oil.

Dell Tests Player to Renew iPod Battle — Music Device Is Key To Broader Strategy — Dell Inc. failed once to move into Apple Inc.'s digital-music turf. Now, it is plotting another foray. — In recent months, Dell has been testing a digital music player that could go on sale as early as September, said several Dell officials.

More transparency in customized search results — As we continue to refine our search algorithms to deliver more relevant results, we strive to be as open as possible about how we use data to improve your search experience. Today, we're rolling out a new feature in Google Web Search …

China to Limit Web Access During Olympic Games — BEIJING — The International Olympic Committee failed to press China to allow fully unfettered access to the Internet for the thousands of journalists arriving here to cover the Olympics, despite promising repeatedly that the foreign news media could …

T-mobile 3G launching on October 1st — Earlier this month we posted an article about some information that had come to us regarding an October 1 launch date for nationwide 3G. We wrote it with a grain of salt but we definitely had high hopes for this to be true.

Are iPhone 3Gs developing cracks? — In what appears to be an increasingly common problem, hairline cracks are beginning to form on Apple's new iPhone 3G. While most of the cracks are reportedly affecting the white model, this is likely due to the increased visibility of the dark fracture …

Nintendo suits allege allowing illegal downloading — Nintendo on Tuesday filed lawsuits in Japan against five companies it said are allowing the illegal downloading of games from the Internet and the subsequent playing of those games on the company's hit DS handheld device.

Bypass Gmail's Spam Filter — If you wanted a way to bypass Gmail's spam filter, now it's possible. Just create a filter that describes the cases when Gmail should not flag the incoming messages as spam and then check “Never send it to spam”. To bypass the filter for all the messages flagged as spam …